Shandon Armstrong

“I knew it,” Margie said. “I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it,” she added angrily. She kicked her chair away and stormed into the kitchen and back, her eyes flailing around the room for something to glare at. Ryan didn’t know anything, and it seemed unfair that she apparently knew five things.”
― D.M. Sinclair, A Hundred Billion Ghosts

“You know what happens when all of your dreams come true? Nothing. I realized a very simple truth: that success, fame, having all my dreams come true would not fix or improve me, it wasn’t an instant potion for personal growth.”
― Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

“It resembled a plan in the way that a heavy rock resembles a parachute: it gives you something to hold onto on the way to your doom, but it’s almost certainly not going to help.”
― D.M. Sinclair, A Hundred Billion Ghosts

“I often think life is just a performance. None of this is real. It’s a pretense at reality, that’s all. Only when someone, or something, we love dies, do we wake up from the play—and see how artificial it all is—this constructed reality we inhabit. We suddenly realize that life is in no way lasting, or permanent; no future exists—and nothing we do matters. And in desolation, we howl and scream and rail at the heavens, until, at some point, we do the inevitable: we eat, dress, and brush our teeth. We continue with the marionette-like motions of life, however unhinged it feels to do so. Then, ever so slowly, the illusion takes over again—until we forget that we are actors in a play. Until the next tragedy strikes—to wake us up.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Fury